Web Design & Development: PHP Tutorials

The PHP date() function formats a timestamp to a more readable date and time. PHP time stamp is a numeric value in seconds between the time at present and the value at Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT). This time of January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT is taken as base for all time stamp calculations.

OAuth can be a tricky concept to wrap your head around at first, but with the Twitter API now requiring its use, it is something you need to understand before creating a Twitter application. This tutorial will introduce you to OAuth, and walk you through the process of creating a basic application.

solidDB is an in-memory database that can perform at speeds up to 10 times faster than conventional databases. Learn how to use PHP with solidDB to build faster dynamic Web page applications. This article shows you how to use PHP to connect to a solidDB database and perform basic operations such as retrieve, update, and delete. You can use these steps as a foundation for building rich Web applications that harness the power of solidDB.